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If you have a modifier key on your tablet set as ALT, and the button on your pen set as right click, you can just press the modifier key, the button on your pen and by touching the tablet you have "left click". You can then drag up/down/left/right to adjust the brush settings.

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I did that, both by using the ALT key from the keyboard, and from an ExpressKey assigned to the tablet. The action that Affinity is selecting is Color Picker. It behaves like the right-click button from the pen is being ignored by Affinity on the brush mode. To be more specific, I'm running on Windows 10 Pro.

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Iulian

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Actually, there are many more issues with using the pen in Affinity on Windows. You should see me trying to chase the points on the Curves adjustment filter. Or trying to get sliders on any adjustment tools to move the needle.

The problems are not related to the Wacom tablet driver, but with the way Affinity is handling Windows Ink. I had the same problems with a Huion and a Monoprice tablet. For comparison, I have played around with the Krita and Medibang, where the pen support is smooth.

For the sake of clarity I should add that the second issue I raise in the linked post disappeared after unchecking 'experimental precision input' or similar (not on my desk right now). The hover click issue is still open.

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The video linked by the thread opener shows basically everything which makes editing with a tablet a far superior experience in Photoshop: Really well functioning brush controls, but also far better scrubby Zoom and Pan.

Superficially looking one might say that this all functions similarly in Affinity - but it's really the details which make all the difference. I described the Zoom and Pan issue with a Pen (also valid for Mouse based input) here.

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I meant that regardless of the combination I'm using, there are only six and I tested them all, I don't get it to resize the brush.

So, I did more tests.

Wacom PTH660 and Intuos Draw CTL 490 behave the same on Photo 1.6 and the 1.7 (beta), the pen's right click is not captured for the alt+rc+lc combination. These Wacom tablets are failing on this test (both tablets are using the same Wacom driver, Wacom's latest).

The Tablet HUION Inspiroy Q11K V2 is fully rejected by 1.6; however, it works excellent in 1.7 (beta), being able to resize the brush, being very precise with the GUI sliders used in the adjustment layers, including very precise control of manipulating the curve points in the Curves Adjustment Layer. There is a bug in 1.7 though, the option that should toggle off the pen pressure support (Force pressure to control size) is not working.